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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Spirituality: To a young man who wishes to be a Jesuit, I would say:

“Stay at home if this idea makes you unsettled or nervous. 
Do not come to us if you love the Church like a stepmother, rather than a mother; 
Do not come if you think that in so doing you will be doing the Society of Jesus a favor. 

Come if serving Christ is at the very center of your life. 
Come if you have broad and sufficiently strong shoulders, 
Come if you have an open spirit, a reasonably open mind and a heart larger than the world. 
Come if you know how to tell a joke and can laugh with others and … 
on occasions you can laugh at yourself.

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